BETHLEHEM, PA - Lehigh University officially welcomed two Montclair residents to the Class of 2018. The incoming class represents an accomplished, diverse group of students who hail from 41 U.S. states and 34 international countries and territories.

Havana Blehl and Jack Fields, both of Montclair, were welcomed to Lehigh University as members of the class of 2018.

Fields is a 2014 graduate of Montclair High School. Students were welcomed to the university with a welcome 'meet and greet' picnic.

For 149 years, Lehigh University (lehigh.edu) has combined outstanding academic and learning opportunities with leadership in fostering innovative research. The institution is among the nation's most selective, highly ranked private research universities. Lehigh's four colleges – College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business and Economics, College of Education and the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science – provide opportunities to 7,000 students to discover and grow in a learning community that promotes interdisciplinary programs with real-world experience.

NEWARK, NJ – Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, 20, of Orange, is set to appear in court on Tuesday, December 13 on charges that he allegedly killed New Jersey City University Sophmore Sarah Butler, 20, of Montclair.

Wheeler-Weaver will appear before the Hon. Ronald Wigler, PJ Cr. at the Essex County Superior Court, officials announced.

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ - It was the one day everyone wanted to get a parking ticket. "Today" show host Hoda Kotb impersonated a meter maid in what she called, "half prank, half good deed," and ticketed cars with a different kind of ticket in and around South Orange Avenue in South Orange.

After undergoing a transformation in her appearance with make-up and ...

TRENTON, NJ - The New Jersey School Boards Association announced Wednesday that it will assist local boards of education in exploring possible legal action against a company that allegedly sold artificial turf fields to schools across the state with full knowledge that the product was defective.

After a recent article by nj.com, in which they conducted an investigation into the faulty turf ...

NEWARK, NJ - An arrest was made Tuesday in the murder of Sarah Butler, 20, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Montclair Police Chief Todd Conforti have announced during a press conference in Newark on Wednesday.

Authorities announced that they have arrested Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, of Orange, who is suspected of the murder of Butler by strangulation.

MONTCLAIR, NJ - The 28th Annual Kwanzaa celebration will take place at Montclair Public Library on Sunday, December 11 from 2-4pm.

Located at 50 South Fullerton Avenue, this year's celebration will feature Mama Yaa, who is no stranger to the Montclair Kwanzaa event. She will kick off the ceremony with a lighting of the seven candles of Kwanzaa and a proclamation of the seven principles of ...

MONTCLAIR, NJ - United States Attorney Paul Fishman will join Montclair Police Chief Todd Conforti during the coffee with a cop series. The public is invited to ask questions and mingle with these top two law enforcement officials on December 9 at Crazy Mocha.

The event will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at 491 Bloomfield Avenue.

Any armchair theoretical physicist knows that Stephen Hawking has pursued a lifelong quest to come up with a Theory of Everything. This all-encompassing theory would tie together general relativity (large scale and high mass galaxies, stars, etc), quantum theory (quantum mechanics, quarks, atoms, subatomic particles), and Newtonian physics (gravity on small bodies, gas laws, electromagnetism) to ...

MADISON, NJ – It’s clear the Welsh love to sing as the evening moves on with relatives gathering for Christmas dinner at the Thomas home in Wales.

The play opens with three children and then a chorus singing “In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,” a melancholy tune that conjures visions of Swansea, a village in Wales, with “fallen snow on ...